Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) vs M4 GPU (8-core)
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Apple M5 GPU (8-Core)
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Apple M4 GPU (8-core)
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We compared two integrated laptop professional GPUs: the Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) with 128 pipelines and 1024 shaders against the 1 year and 4 months older M4 GPU (8-core) that utilizes 128 pipelines and 1024 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Please note that the tests on the Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) are done on an engineering sample provided by our insiders. The data will be more accurate after the final version of this GPU is available.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Apple M5 GPU (8-Core)
- Performs better (up to 29%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- Has 28% higher memory bandwidth: 153 vs 120 GB/s
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Solar Bay | 19617 | 13969 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 9804 | 7931 |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | - | 57.4 img/sec |
| Face Detection | - | 41.3 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | - | 1.21 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | - | 1.74 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | - | 1.12 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | - | 0.43 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | - | 94.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | - | 3902.5 FPS |
| API | - | OpenCL |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Apple M5 GPU (8-Core)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-06-08 (h) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 40417 |
Apple M4 GPU (8-core)
No benchmark results yet
Specifications
Technical specifications of Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) and M4 GPU (8-core)General
| Vendor | Apple | Apple |
| Build | Integrated | Integrated |
| Released | March 3, 2026 | October 29, 2024 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Professional |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Apple M GPU | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | Custom | Custom |
| Successor | - | - Apple M5 GPU (8-Core) |
| Recommended CPU | - Apple M5 (8-сore GPU) or above | - Apple M4 (8-Core) or above |
| Used in CPUs | - Apple M5 (8-сore GPU) | - Apple M4 (8-Core) |
Laptop GPU ranking (#67th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | - | 500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 1620 MHz | 1470 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 1024 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 64 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 32 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 128 | 128 |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 52 GPixel/s | 47 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 104 GTexel/s | 94 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | Custom | Custom |
| TGP | - | 15 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 3 nm | 3 nm |
| Transistor Count | 28 billion | - |
| Max. Temperature | 100°C | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | 9600 MHz | 7500 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 15000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | No |
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